Vintage shots from days gone by!

...Henry inspecting something very special...
Looks like 8 cyl flathead engine in X layout.
What the heck was this invention?

 

Scroll up this page and you will find out.

 

Joey Chitwood at Williams Grove, Maybe Chuck Stevenson leading Sam Hanks and Johnny Thomson looking at an Offy crankcase.

 

Brand X at a dragstrip



Build It



Carroll Bros & Bucher Nhra Nationals at Dallas




Cerny Almy & Kimball



Chizler

 

I think you are correct. And the Stevenson and Hanks photo might have been taken at Phoenix although I'm not sure. Stevenson won the National Championship in the Springfield Welding car with Clay Smith as the mechanic. Clay was also the chief for the Agajanian car and won races (including the 500) with Troy Ruttman and Bill Vukovich that year as well. Clay wasn't an employee as such as the car owners basically contracted with his business in Long Beach to take care of their cars. Clay also developed his own camshafts for his Offenhausers which were different from the standard Meyer-Drake cams that virtually everyone else was running.

Also, I'm not certain but that might be mechanic Roy Sherman with Johnny Thomson in the garage photo.

 

I remember when Frank worked at Bill Kretch's 76 gas station in 1948, he did all Bills midget work in Inglewood,Ca.
Frank also did side work in the back shop,---He overhauled my dads 1941 Buick straight 8.

 

No... The aircooled engine in Johnny Gee's post is different than the one with Henry.
Just notice the aircool fins around the cylinder BLOCK and other details.
The one with Henry Ford is similar layout "X8", but definetely different design.

 

^Well, Henry obviously experimented with several versions of the X8 in the 20's & 30's
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=93208

"earlier experimental X-8 that Ford built in the waning days of the Model “T” Ford. The water-cooled version was designed by Eugene Farkas and tested along with an air-cooled version. You can read about and see more photos of the X- 8 engined Ford car in a book, “Friends, Families and Forays” written by Ford Richardson Bryan."


There were (below from left to right) a water cooled X8, air cooled X8 and radial 9-cyl.

 

I saw these the other day, they are still parked there !!!!!!

 

NOT BIG SELLERS?

 

Ron-Jon's, Cocoa Beach

 

Chicago, circa 1956

 

Columbus, OH.

 

What's going on here? A bad case of follow the leader?

 

Looks like the '57 Chevy went out of control and skimmed the Cadillac moving it over and continued into the pole.

 

I found this picture when I looked up Determination in the dictionary